High School: Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum with AI

Vetting ChatGPT sources

The assignment provides a detailed framework for evaluating the credibility and reliability of sources generated by ChatGPT, helping students develop critical thinking skills and discernment in using AI-generated content.

Hidden Layer: Intellectual Privacy and Generative AI

Students are provided with a comprehensive overview of artificial intelligence, covering its history, current applications, and future implications, which equips them with a broad understanding of the field.

AI Literacy Workshop: Evaluation and Detection Tools

Students explore and debate the ethical considerations and practical implications of using AI and detection tools in real-world contexts.

AI Literacy Workshop: AI and Copyright

The assignment provides an extensive overview of copyright laws relevant to AI-generated content, including discussion of Creative Commons licensing.

Using Generative AI Responsibly for Brainstorming and Refining a Research Question

The assignment includes activities that actively engage students with GenAI tools to brainstorm and refine research questions.

How RNNs (Recurrent Neural Networks) + Transformers Work

This curriculum introduces the technical details of how AI systems generate content using context, allowing students to engage actively with the material.

How GANs (Generative Adversarial Networks) Work

This activity provides an interactive and engaging approach where students can play with AI tools and explore GANs and discrimnators through activities like a password guessing game and painting with a generator.

AI & Ethics

Students engage in role-playing activities where they run their own companies and make ethical decisions. This hands-on approach helps them understand the practical implications of AI ethics.

AI & The Environment

This assignment highlights how AI can process large datasets much faster than humans, aiding environmentalists in protecting wildlife. By analyzing camera trap and satellite data, AI helps researchers make informed decisions and conservation plans.

AI & Drawing

This assignment teaches students how data becomes output in AI models and highlighting the presence of human biases in datasets. By exploring drawing in Google Quick, Draw!, students learn core AI ideas in a fun and interactive way.

AI & Facial Recognition

The activity addresses biases in facial recognition, particularly how it fails more often on women and people with darker skin. It also discusses the ethical implications and legal responses to surveillance technology, fostering critical thinking and informed discussions among students.

How Neural Networks Work

This activity allows students to actively engage in the learning process by acting out different layers of a neural network and teaching others what they have learned.

Study: Time Management

This assignment helps students boost productivity by using ChatGPT to create personalized schedules that balance academic, personal, and work lives.

Study: Flashcard Generation

ChatGPT can assist in turning content into a question-and-answer format and creating interactive quizzes, enhancing the study experience. For students whose second language is English, ChatGPT can translate content into their native language, improving comprehension and retention.

Study: Personal Teaching Assistant

Students use ChatGPT to receive explanations and definitions in various formats, with content progressing from simplified to more complex levels. Available formats include charts, graphs, images, audio recordings, videos, text summaries, games, and simulations.

Study: Find Elusive Terms

By demonstrating how to use ChatGPT to retrieve forgotten terms, students learn valuable memory retrieval techniques. They understand how to describe the features of the term they are trying to recall, which helps in better communication and cognitive processing.

Writing: Perplexity

Students use ChatGPT to overcome writer’s block by filling in incomplete thoughts and generating ideas, making the writing process smoother and less intimidating.

Writing: Overcoming Writer’s Block

ChatGPT helps students overcome writer’s block by generating an initial draft of an opening paragraph, allowing students to focus on revising and refining rather than starting from scratch.

AI & Deepfakes

This activity provides a thorough introduction to deepfakes, including definitions, how they work, and their impact on society, making it accessible even for those with no background knowledge. Students then engage in hands-on activities such as detecting deepfakes and creating their own, supplemented by videos and discussions to reinforce learning.

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